Learning to Think by Janet Donald

Learning to Think by Janet Donald

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Offers educators a useful aid for helping students develop the ability to conceptualize, analyze, and reason across and within academic disciplines. This work discusses how learning occurs in selected disciplines, and how educators can improve the teaching and learning process in their classrooms.

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Learning to Think by Janet Donald

In colleges and universities, there is increasing demand to help students learn how to conceptualize, analyze, and reason. Learning to Think presents a model of learning that takes into account the different ways learning occurs in different academic disciplines and explores the relationship between knowledge and thinking processes. Janet Donald--a leading researcher in the field of postsecondary teaching and learning--presents a framework for learning that goes beyond the acquisition of knowledge to encompass ways of constructing and utilizing it within and across disciplines. The author discusses how learning occurs in different academic disciplines and reveals how educators can improve the teaching and learning process in their classrooms and programs.
If the higher education community heeds this book and begins to understand it s implications, then progress will be made (The Journal of Higher Education, 7/1/2007, Vol75. No. 4) very scholarly and extensively well researched reference book will become a classic in it s field. (Choice, November 2002)
Janet Donald is professor in the Centre for University Teaching and Learning at the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at McGill University. Her research has focused on the quality of postsecondary learning and teaching, particularly on fostering higher order learning. She has received numerous awards for her work and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001.
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ISBN 13 9780787910327
ISBN 10 0787910325
Title Learning to Think
Author Janet Donald
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year published 2002-03-25
Number of pages 352
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.